442 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
In addition to the usual sessions of the Association there were two 
exercises of extraordinary character, and indeed of extraordinary interest 
for the country. On Wednesday, the 27th, the inauguration of the State 
- Hall, have a more than American importance. 
The oreat address of the occasion was delivered by Prof. Agassiz, in 
which he ably sustained the view, that “nature can only be the work of 
an intellectual Being,—of Mind,—of an Individual God.” Remarks were 
also made by Professors Dewey and Hitchcock, on the history of geo- 
tion of Religion with Science. 
A merited tribute was paid to the memory of the Dr. T. Romeyn Beck, 
of Albany and resolutions of respect to his memory were passed by 
silently rising. ' 
On the following day, Thursday, there was the inauguration 0 the 
Dudley Observatory when Hon. Edward Everett delivered to an audience 
of five thousand, an oration of great power, admirably adapted to the 
occasion. 
The Dudley Observatory originated in the munificence of Mrs. Dudley 
of Albany, lady of the late Charles E. Dudley of that city, ingen 
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uring the meet dley 
was read announcing the additional gift of $50,000 to the Observatory 
fund towards which Mrs. Dudley efore given $25,000. Ss 
completion of the Observatory and the ordering of its instruments, part 
passage on Galileo. 
Ga.ite0.— On this great name, my Friends, assembled as we are to 
dedicate a temple to instrumental astronomy, we may well pause for @ 
moment. 
“There is much, in every way, in the city of Florence to excite the curi- 
osity, to kindle the imagination, and to gratify the taste. Sheltered on 
the north by the vine-clad hills of Fiesole, hes cyclopean walls cary 
back the antiquary to ages before the Roman, before the Etruscan power, 
the flowery city (Fiorenza) covers the sunny banks of the Arno with its 
* Since the adjournment of the Association we | ift towards the 
Observatory of $10,000 by T. W. Oleott, Esq., of presen oF ae 
has in charge the ee 
